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ELECTRIC RAILWAY.

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CHARLES RUSSELL,

OF SHARON HILL, AND ALBERT G. \VELGHAUS, OF

LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

E LECTRIC RAILWAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 00 629,211, dated July 18, 1899.

Application filed August 2, 1898. Serial No. 687,572. '(No model.)

To all whom/ it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES RUssELL, residing at Sharon Hill, in the county of Delaware, and ALBERT O. WELoHAos, residing at Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster, State of Pennsylva-nia,citizens of the United States, have invented new and useful Improvements in Electric-Railway Systems, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in electric railways; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts fully shown and described hereinafter and particularly pointed outein the claim.

Referring now to the drawings, Figure 1 is' a cross-sectional View of a road-bed fitted with our invention Fig. 2 is a siderelevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional View of the trolley-rail, insulator, andrail-guards. V 7

Referring now to the drawings, A represents the ties of the road-bed, to which are secured the insulator-sockets 1. Situated in these insulator-sockets 1 are the plugs 2,,to the upper ends of which are attached the insulators 3.- The plugs 2 are connected in the sockets 1 through the medium of a transverse pin 5, and the insulators 3 are of the petticoat design, having a projection at theirupper ends, which projection is provided with a longitudinal slottoreceive the depending web of the trolley-rail 4: The rail 4 is the conductor through which the electric current is transmitted, and situated in the slots 6 of the insulators is sheet-rubber 11' to relieve the insulators from shocks through the vibration of the trolley-rail inLt-he movement of the trolley thereover; This rail-dis held in position by means of "theibolts 10, which-pass through both the insulators and the rail, as illustrated, the bolts being themselves insulated from the rail by bushing of non-conducting material inserted'through the rail and inclosing'thebolts. a

For the purpose of preventing anything coming in contact with the rail 4 weprovide the wood rail-guards'i), which are situated at each side of the rail 4 and extending high enough thereabove and adjacent thereto to prevent contact from above and extending sentially U shaped in cross-section and which A are placed any desired distance apart in order to securely and properly hold the said guards, and the inner face of the upper ends of these chairs are inclined inward, and the guard-rails are bound to the chairs against the upwardly-inclined surfaces by means of bolts or screws a,.as best suits the requirement. The chairs are fastened to the ties in anydesired manner. I

From this'description it willbe noted that the inclosing structure for the trolley-rail 4 is entirely above the ties A and between the rails 23, which support the car. 7 The guards are so situated that a very small spaceis left between their upper ends and extend downsiderably above the ties to allow snow and other obstructions to flow and to wash out below the trolley-rail, and there is sufiicient space toallow'workmen to attend to the ties without removing the guards. The petticoatinsulators, constructed as herein shown and described, protect all parts, which "produces an insulation adapted to carry a-current of a.

very high potentiality. y

Having thus described'ourinvention, what A we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An electric railway comprising a plurality vof transverse ties, the parallel rails adjacent each end thereof, insulator-sockets attached toysomeof. the ties, petticoat-insulators supported by the said sockets and having upwardly-extending projections above the petticoats, the projections having vertical openings, a trolley-rail with a depending web fit-v ting in said vertical openings, U-shaped guard-rail chairs attached to some of the ties, and having upwardly'andv inwardly extend- 10o ing faces, Wood guardrails connected to the our hands in the presence of two subscribing inclined faces of the chairs with their upper witnesses.

edges projecting above and adjacent the up- 7 per edge of the trolley-rail and their lower 5 edges projecting below the depending flange 4 thereof but considerably above the ties, sub- \Vitnesses:

stantially as and for the purpose described. JOHN F. TURNER,

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set F. SCHLAUCH. 

